Moreover, in the system of fee-for-service the GP often has to go along with the expectations of the patient in order to keep him in his surgery and to protect his income.
Because the variance estimate due to the background count rate was non-negligible for the calibration factor CFdA, particular attention should be taken to avoid sources of activity near the camera during the calibration source and patient acquisitions in order to keep the same level of background counts.
These paradox findings may be related to instable [K+]o plasma levels in critically ill patients requiring potassium substitution in order to keep [K+]o plasma concentration within the normal range.
As the clinical diagnosis of AA remains a challenge to emergency physicians and surgeons, imaging modalities have gained major importance in the diagnostic work-up of patients with suspected AA in order to keep both the negative appendectomy rate and the perforation rate low.
We therefore sought to create an educational component based on patients' illness perceptions; 2) in order to keep participants engaged, they required opportunities to think aloud about the material they were seeing and to interact with the research assistant.
Furthermore, GPs consider very important the impact of 'evidence-based thinking and acting' on outcomes (improvement of mortality and morbidity rates, better quality of life,...) for patients to be assessed in order to keep them motivated to implement it in practice.
All patients were assigned to a unique study number in order to keep the patients' identity confidential.
Patients aged 55 84 years were selected in order to keep the data homogeneous, and for descriptive purposes they were categorized into 3 groups based on age (55 64, 65 74, and 75 84 years).
Ersoy and Gundogmus found that "most GPs preferred to hospitalize the patient, even by using force if necessary, in order to keep the patient from harm".
Increasing patients' responsibilities and autonomy is also essential for the redesign of health services, from current disease- or institutional-centered models to patient-centered models of care, in order to keep expenses under control [ 3, 4].
